[CentOS] Firewall frustration

Tue Jan 1 01:08:37 UTC 2008
Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com>

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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:21:34 -0500
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:

> William L. Maltby wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 09:33 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >   
> >> Peter Farrell wrote:
> >>     
> >>> "Problem is I want a REAL router/firewall with little work."
> >>>
> >>> Run a smoothwall installtion and replace your CentOS install.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.smoothwall.org/
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> well first challenge is my unit's USB ethernet dongles. Centos
> >> uses the RTL 8150 driver for them. Smoothwall only lists the RTL
> >> 8129, 8139, and 8169...
> >>     
> >
> > I've used this at home for years. I don't know if it's suitable,
> > but it seems *very* flexible. Allows for NAT or not, has typical
> > zones, reporting, IPTables modification support, ...
> >
> >    http://www.ipcop.org/
> >
> > Has run/tested successfully on various configurations here. It's
> > another "ditch your CentOS" solution though. But you can put it on
> > any old junk laying around and it'ss probably work. Using cable
> > modem in the boonies, 486DX/66 gives about 450KB/sec, Pentium
> > 200MHz pci gives <= 700MB/sec - both from decent sites. Tested
> > using both ISA and PCI bus adapters through both twisted pair and
> > thin coax.
> As I thought about things this morning, trying to put up smoothwall,
> I realized that one of my goals is to have a tool to turn a Centos
> system that I am using for foo, into a firewall for bar for a day.  I
> have Astaro for my serious firewall needs (see later post), but need 
> something 'portable'.  You see I have these plans with some small itx 
> systems....

have you considered linux that fits on a floppy disk?

http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~thelinuxguy/small_and_floppy_linux/

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/

http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Tiny/Floppy_Sized/

get one running and configured and save to floppy... things go south
reboot the machine and everything is back. no hard drives to worry
about...

- -- 
Mark

"Drunkenness is not an excuse for stupidity. If you're stupid when
you're sober then that's one thing, but if you're sober when you're
stupid, then you're just plain stupid!"
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